W.D. Ehrhart

William Daniel "Bill" Ehrhart (30 September 1948-) was an American Vietnam War veteran and poet.

Biography
William Daniel Ehrhart was born in Perkasie, Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1948. He supported Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964, riding around with his friends on the back of a pickup truck and singing his campaign songs due to their disappointment with Lyndon B. Johnson's lack of action in the Vietnam War. Upon graduating from his school in 1966, he joined the US Marine Corps and fought in Vietnam from February 1967 to February 1968, receiving the Purple Heart after being wounded at the Battle of Hue during the Tet Offensive. After the war, he became a poet and a teacher at the Haverford School, and he became an anti-war activist.